Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use.

- Swinnock

Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge is power.

Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Bierce, Ambrose

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Sterne, Laurence

A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Smiles, Samuel

To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius

You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.

Holt, John

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Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

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All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

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Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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Know yourself, master yourself, conquest of self is most gratifying.

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Hunt, William Morris

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

Caine, Mark

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Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Robbins, Anthony

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A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.